Apple cinema display is expensive because of the usb ports & what not; but I'm sure you can find a similar monitor for cheaper from any leading monitor brand such as Acer etc.
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Samantha CataniaAug 29 '11 at 10:04

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I was posting exactly this monitor. The great thing is that it's actually an IPS panel, which can display 16.7 million colors, instead of only 65,536 like the way more common and cheap TN panels (like the ones in laptops) that fake the other colors by using dithering (hence the crappy color banding). It's also 16:10.
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Carmine PaolinoSep 20 '10 at 21:38

It seems to be a really nice screen with loads of inputs and the fact that you can rotate it is great. A bit expensive unfortunatly.
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kevinSep 21 '10 at 12:06

I'm not sure what you mean by "overly widescreen" - are you looking at these screens in person or on the web? How can you tell they're overly wide?

I'd be far more concerned with display quality than display sizing. The Dell screens I've used in the past have always been terrible at getting the color quality that a macbook pro screen has.

I'm currently using a Samsung 2333HD next to my MBP and it's a serious competitor to the apple display quality, in my opinion. To be fair, it's just under your specs at 23" but it's more than enough extra screen real estate for me and you'll surely be impressed if you're upgrading from a 19".

The newest apple display is 19.35"x25.7"x8.15" (and that's for a 27" screen) whereas the 2333HD is 16.5"x21.8"x8.5" (for 23") so very close to the same depth and 3"/4" less height/width for 4" less screen size. It's the same 16:9 aspect ratio, so you probably won't be disappointed by the width and, again, you definitely won't miss out on quality. Seems like it runs around $200 these days, I got mine for $150 on sale so you could probably search around a bit for a better price.

Display quality isn't such a problem for me. I do have a 16:10 screen now and not 16:9. Those that I've seen in person are mostly HP screen, they seem overly wide because of their very low height.
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kevinSep 21 '10 at 12:08